Ricky Rudd's Victory Lane Interview, Martinsville 1998
Anyone who doesn't think NASCAR drivers are athletes should watch this clip. Ricky Rudd, laying prostrate in Martinsville's Victory Lane, is interviewed by ESPN between breaths on an oxygen bottle after his gutsy victory in the 1998 NAPA AutoCare 500 in scorching September heat with a malfunctioning air conditioning unit just 5 laps into the 500 lap, caution-filled race.